In 1990, after a career in broadcast journalism covering politics in the Middle East, Jihan started directing and producing documentaries for French television. Since then, her works have included The Koran and the Kalashnikov, in which she filmed Osama Bin Laden's training camps in Sudan, The House of Saud and Behind the Rainbow.

In 1990, after a career in broadcast journalism covering politics in the Middle East, Jihan started directing and producing documentaries for French television. Since then, her works have included The Koran and the Kalashnikov, in which she filmed Osama Bin Laden's training camps in Sudan, The House of Saud and Behind the Rainbow.